... I OUR LONDON COOREONDENCE.| 65 FLZET SrTszRT, tb Friday Night. up Ta benches of the House of Commons are ha I. th, already showing a somewhat thin attendance of - members, a matterforwhich no doubt the great re beat wave which has towed overus during the rim last few days is largely responsible. Such me-1 pr bers as do attend are for the most part arrayed fr in the lightest, thinnest, and most ...

... O1VERLAND JOURNEY FROM-i I AMERICA TO EUROPE. Reuter's Agency is informed that 'Mr Harry de Windt, the well-known traveller in Siberia and China will shortly leave England on a long and' adventurous journey from America to Europe by way of Behring Straits. Leaving Europe by the steamer La Gascogme early in October next Mr de Windt will deliver a number of lectures on Siberia in the United ...

... LABOUR AFFAhIRS. THE STRIKE IN DUNUEE-LARCE ADDITION TO STRIKE-ROLL, An important addition to the strike-roll in Dum- dee took place yesterday by a large number of t4e workers emploved in Camperdown Jnte-Works, Ioelee (Cox Brothers, Limited), coming out. Camperdown Jute-Works may be said to be the largest jute establishment in the world, and give employmenb to between 5000 and 6000 hands. ...

... POLITICAL NOTES AND ' GOSSIP. MR P. B. FINLAY APPOINTED SOLICITOR- GENERAL We are officially informed that the Queen has been pleased to approve of the appointment of Mr Robert Baunatyne Finlay, Q.C., M.P., to be Solicitor-General for England. The Press Association says that when it became known in. the -Parliamentary lobby last evening that Mr R. B. Finiay, Q.C., bad been appointed to the ...

... I ~¶5H-RE COLLIERYI DISASTER. - -- I~~~ NINEw ME STiLL MISSINO-WORK OF NXPLORATION CONTINUD. helabash band of waorkei's whose efotso %esalted in the rescue of five of the I ^-ra ire0 entombed in AucheOharvil micry r e-;d their labourS yesterday. Mere without sucness so far as , -; 'se a;ing of life was concerned, but a c rton of the lower workings de arnd samne property belonginrg to d miners ...

... ARMENIA, BULGARIA, AND X MACEDONIA. I LATEST DETAILS Of THE SITUATION. C (anEn'S TELEGRAMS.) Belgrade, August 10. According to intelligence received here from Uskub, an insurgent band of 200 men coinng from Rustendil was defeated and dispersed five days ago by Turkish troops. Vienna, August 10. The Keueg Th-ie Preae to-day states that o Prolfesor Tchersr, editor of the Jounzal a L'Armnenze, ...

... 1OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENCE, _ I 65 FLE19T 5TFlET, chs Wednesday Night. TuEx House of Conmmons was' ?? to-day in discussing the Foreign Office vote in Corn- Aft muittee, of Suppy.It was the first vote taken CO -when the House got into Committee, and the. B. debate upon it, as is always the case, was an' Iscrappy and disjointed, for foreign agirs cover The a wide field, pretty nearly the whole ...

... j _ zI| DECISION AS TO CUTTING OFF SUPPLY. An action was raised in Glasgow Sheriff Small- Debt Court against the Corporation by Mr David Campbell for loss and damage alleged to have been sustained by him through the Corporation having cut off the supply of gas to his premises at No. 95 Castle Street. The agents of the parties to the action were heard before Sheriff Berry on Mooday, and the ...

... I TRE. COURT., - Osborne, Saturday. The Queen yesterday held a private investiture of Orders of the Bath, the Star of India, St Michael and St George. and the Indian Empire. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louise, Marchioness of Lorne, Duke of York, and Princess Victoriaof Scbleswig-Holstein, entered the Council Room shortly after three o'clock. The following Knights of the Grand Cross of ? ...

... PAPUTSR CO UNCILS. WE 13srwoon -M~r Duncan W atson presided. .Mr Brown, looking to the fact that there was a ceame- terZ rate of $d per £1, while other cemeteries, such as Sandymount, Western, Craigton, and Cathcarr, were worked at a profit, proposed to curtail the expenditure by reducing the salary of the superin- ter-dent from £91 to £70. The mttion was not seconded; but a proposal by Mar ...

... WEATHER REPRT ANOFUIECASTS. I I l!sgTEOROLOG9IAL* OrrICE, Tuesday, August 6. At 6 p.m. pressure was bighest (38 inches and more to 29'8 inches) over Spain and France, and exceeding 29'o inches over the northern parts of Scandinavia; lowest about'29'4inches in a rather ?? depression lying 'ove tie Ndrth Sea, Gradients were moderate and decreasing. Barometer was risin ?? ttitiijn, but in the ...

... , LETTERS TO -THE EDITOR: MACDONALDS OF GLENCOE. ?? Carnocb, Glencoe, Augrust 28. Sts,-I have read the leading article on this subject in the Glasgow Hrafd of Wednesday with somesurprise. I think it iS quite a mistake to suppose that there is any ill-feeling here about Lord Archibald Cam~pbelfs visit. I-Is is already well known and popular in Glencos tand Bal- lachulish. The interest he has ...